{"id":4777,"date":"2013-01-30T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:39:36","slug":"it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times-which-should-i-focus-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times-which-should-i-focus-on\/","title":{"rendered":"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — which should I focus on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

These last couple of days whipped me between wild extremes.
\nSunday morning, I couldn’t find my keys. I tore up the apartment — something I try to prevent by trying to always hang my keys near the door — and got increasingly frustrated and concerned … until I realized my husband had taken them by accident.
\nLater that day, I got a message from AirBnB that my host in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive had canceled my booking. Hotels for the March event sold out last summer, and when I booked this apartment in the fall, I’d spent hours finding something reasonably priced with a decent location. I wondered if I’d have to cancel my trip … but within 24 hours, the fabulous friend I’m bunking with scored us a better apartment than the one we lost.
\nSunday night, I worked out my finances for my consulting business and got frustrated that my expenses ate such a big chunk of my end-of-year income … but I also had one client recently commit to new work, had a good meeting with a prospect and organized an inspiring group of women to help each other get referrals. Business feels good in 2013.
\n

\"Nona<\/a>
Nona Brooklyn profiled Frank Caputo and his incredible handmade mozzarella — and seriously, if you’re in Brooklyn and haven’t tried it, it will ruin you for anything else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMonday morning, I couldn’t find my wallet. After the key fiasco, I wasn’t eager to toss the apartment, but I looked in every logical and illogical place. Nothing. I froze my credit cards, and was relieved when the bank told me no strange charges had been attempted.
\nI’d only used my wallet one place Sunday, so I called Caputo’s, an excellent Italian shop with the best fresh mozzarella I’ve ever had<\/a>. But they’re closed on Mondays, so I waited.
\nI didn’t think it would do me any good to go to Caputo’s in person, since they were closed and it’s a long-ish walk from our apartment. But if I had, I would have seen that the owner, Frank, put up a sign\u00a0 announcing a woman’s wallet had been found.
\nHe’d also tried to call me, but since we don’t have a land line, he didn’t find me in the phone book.
\nIt was this wallet incident that sent me over the moon.
\nI could focus on the frustration of absent mindedly leaving my wallet on the counter of a busy store and being worried and without it for a day — or take it as a lovely reminder of the good people in our neighborhood.
\nSo instead of focusing on losing my keys, losing my wallet, losing my SXSW apartment, I’m filled with gratitude that a few days later, I’m actually in a better spot than I was before.
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